Ex parte Slayton’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 23 district · 3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Such being the case, we cannot say the court (upon the showing here made) has no.t acquired jurisdiction of the thing about which the litigation arises, to-wit, the fund to be apportioned among the parties who may prove to be legally entitled thereto. It has the freight money in its possession, and its trustee is in a condition to gather up the remnants of the vessel, if it has not already been done. The, jurisdiction of the court is not dependent at all on the amount, but on the rightful possession of that which is to be divided.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co.

2. ““As was said at filis term in The Scotland, supra ( 105 U. S. 24 [ 26 L. Ed. 1001 ]), our rules were not intended to prevent an owner from availing himself of any other remedy or process which the law itself entitled him to adopt, but to aid him in bringing into concourse those having claims against him arising from the acts of the master or crew.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Enterprise

3. ““The owner of a vessel may, before he or it is sued, institute appropriate proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to obtain the benefit of the limitation of liability provided for by Secs. 4284 and .4285 of the Revised Statutes.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Southern Steamship Co.